Zhiyong Zhang, Kai Zhang, Shuyin Chen, Zhiwei Zhang, Jinyong Zhang, Xinxin You, Chao Bian, Jin Xu, Chaofeng Jia, Jun Qiang, Fei Zhu, Hongxia Li, Hailin Liu, Dehua Shen, Zhonghong Ren, Jieming Chen, Jia Li, Tianheng Gao, Ruobo Gu, Junmin Xu, Qiong Shi, Pao Xu
Background: As one of the most popular and valuable commercial marine fishes in China and East Asian countries, the Chinese black porgy (Acanthopagrus schlegelii), also known as the blackhead seabream, has some attractive characteristics such as fast growth rate, good meat quality, resistance to diseases, and excellent adaptability to various environments. Furthermore, the black porgy is a good model for investigating sex changes in fish due to its protandrous hermaphroditism. Here, we obtained a high-quality genome assembly of this interesting teleost species and performed a genomic survey on potential genes associated with the sex-change phenomenon...
April 1, 2018: GigaScience